After decades of aid and billions of dollars. it boggles the mind that there is no economic selfsufficiency and no improvement to the quality of life. How is that possible? Because it is not about the money. It is about the Palestinian Authority failing to do what any responsible government would have done with several billion dollars. build infrastructure. improve health care. provide economic opportunities. improve education. and move the Palestinian people into the 21st century. The money is not going into housing. Palestinians continue to live in wretched conditions in refugee camps with corrugated tin roofs and dilapidated ramshackle huts. The money is not going to schools. If it was.